Monday, 31 August, 2009 , 16:30 AFP — Turkey's government wants to reach a consensus for its planned reforms to expand the Kurdish minority's freedoms and end their insurgency, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Monday.
Sunday, 30 August, 2009 , 20:51 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Sunday to press ahead with a plan to extend the rights of the Kurds despite what he claimed were attempts by Kurdish rebels to derail the process.
Sunday, 30 August, 2009 , 17:03 AFP — Turkey's military flexed its muscle with parades and flypasts Sunday to mark Victory Day amid intense debate on a government plan to peacefully end a 25-year bloody Kurdish insurgency.
Sunday, 30 August, 2009 , 16:43 AFP — Four soldiers were killed Sunday in a grenade attack blamed on Kurdish rebels in southeast Turkey, near the border with Iraq, a security source said.
Sunday, 30 August, 2009 , 15:11 AFP — Turkey's military flexed its muscle with parades and flypasts Sunday to mark Victory Day amid intense debate on a government plan to peacefully end a 25-year bloody Kurdish insurgency.
Sunday, 30 August, 2009 , 11:43 AFP — Turkey's military flexed its muscle with parades and flypasts in major cities Sunday to mark Victory Day against a backdrop of intense debate on a government plan to peacefully end a 25-year bloody Kurdish insurgency.
Thursday, 27 August, 2009 , 15:24 AFP — Scores of Kurdish refugees living in Greece have been left homeless after their camp was destroyed by a huge wildfire on the outskirts of Athens, a local residents group said Thursday.
Thursday, 27 August, 2009 , 14:44 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made an emotional appeal to the nation Thursday to back planned reforms to expand the Kurdish minority's freedoms and end a bloody insurgency in the southeast.
Thursday, 27 August, 2009 , 04:08 AFP — Blending traditional folk music with pop beats, sultry gyrations and plunging necklines, the musical phenomenon that is Dashni Murad is shaking Iraq's conservative northern Kurdistan region.
Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 , 15:50 AFP — A government plan to expand the rights of the restive Kurdish community must not endanger Turkey's unity, the country's military chief warned Tuesday, again ruling out dialogue with Kurdish rebels.
